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The death toll in Vanuatu from Tropical Cyclone Pam stands at 11 while nearly 4,000 people are currently sheltering in 39 evacuation centres in and around Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, according to Vanuatu’s National Disaster Management Office (NDMO).
The government says a large but unknown...

Heavy rain brought by Tropical Cyclone Ita in early April caused some of the worst flash flooding in the history of the Solomon Islands. The rains caused river systems to overflow, sending torrents of brown water through the capital Honiara and villages across Guadalcanal Province.
Homes and...

Aid groups in Vanuatu are working alongside the Government to support the thousands of people affected by Tropical Cyclone Lusi that swept across five island provinces in mid-March.
Lusi swept through the northern and central provinces of Vanuatu as a Category 2 system between 9 and 12 March 2014. The...

The launch of a new World Humanitarian Summit website kicks off two years of intensive outreach in the lead up to the 2016 global gathering in Istanbul, Turkey.
The website – www.worldhumanitariansummit.org– marks an important public step in a process that seeks to redefine the way that...

Tropical Cyclone Ian made landfall in northern Tonga on 11 January. It was the strongest storm ever recorded in Tongan waters.
Ian first appeared as a tropical depression between Fiji and Tonga on 6 January, and took five days to develop into a Category 5 system with winds of over 200km per hour.
The...